Bill-file.



PATENTED NOV. 15, 1904.

J. P. WOMBLE.

BILL FILE.

APPLICATION FILED mm: as, 1904.

N0 MODEL.

INVENTOR John PWbmble ATTORNEYS.

No. 775,159. Patented November 15, 1904.

NITED STATES PATENT FFTCE.

JOHN P. \VOMBLE, OF NEWPORT NEWS, VlRbrlNlA.

BILL-FILE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 775,159, dated November 15, 1904.

Application filed June 28, 1904. Serial No. 214,479. (No model.)

T 107w? U l/(flwm'nf duced in diameter and tapered to adaptit to Be it known thatl, JOHN P. 'YOMBLE, a citibe introduced into the tube. The lower end zen of the United States, residing at Newport of the latter abuts a shoulder, as shown. In News, in the county of Warwick and State of other bill-files of this class it has been usual,

Virginia, have made an Improved Bill-File, of l as before intimated, to make the slidablc tube which the following is a specification. of the same length as the free portion of the My invention is an improvement in that pointed pin. 1 have found, however, that an class of bill-files which comprise a pointed pin, important advantage may be obtained by maka supporting-base therefor. and a tube adapting the tube of considerably less length, pref- 10 ed to slide on the pin and extending the whole I erably about half the length of the pin, so length of the same and serving to receive and that due space is provided between the tube hold bills andother papers which are removed l and the base 1 to hold a large number of bills with it when it is desired to examine them for or other papers. \Vhen it is desired to remove the purpose of detaching one or more. one of the bills which may be located below the My invention embodies an improvement in top one, the operation is as follows: The bills 5 the relative construction of the pin and dewhich lie above the one to be removed are tachablc tube whereby important advantages pushed upward or slipped upon the tube 3 are obtained. as hereinafter set forth. and the latter is then detached, as indicated The details of construction, arrangement, in Fig. 5. whereupon the particular bill de- 20 and combination of parts are as hereinafter sired may be slipped off from the pin and the 7 described and claimed, reference being bad to tube with the other bills again set on the pin the accompanying drawings. in whichas before. It will be seen that this opera Figure 1 is a perspective view of my imtion does not disturb therelative arrangeproved bill-file. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal secment of the bills, but provides for readily 5 tion of the upper portion of the same. Fig. and conveniently removing any one of them. 3 is a view illustrating the adjustment of the The bills which are moved upward upon the tube on the pin. Fig. 4 is an enlarged crosstube are prevented from slipping off the same section on the line 4 at of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a by means of the enlarged pointed head at.

view illustrating the practical use of the bill- The elastic tube clamps the pin 2 with sufli- 3 file. Fig. 6 is a side view showing a modrlicient friction to enable the tube to support cation. itselfin any vertical ad ustment, as illustrated Iwill first describe the invention as illusin Fig. 3, where the tube is shown partly trated in Figs. 1 to 5. The numeral 1 indidrawn off the pin. Thus the bill-lilo is adaptcates a truncated pyramidal base adapted to ed to accomodate a very large number of bills, be supported upon any flat surface, and 2 2 since the latter may be applied to the device 5 a pointed pin which is set and fixed in said until they reach the head 4: of the tube. It base and made of suitable length to receive will be understood, however, that this will be and hold the bills or other papers which are an unusual occurrence. It will be further to be filed. seen that this adaptation of the tube 3 to re- 4 3 indicates a tube which is made of spring tain its grip on the pin so that it may be set 9 or elastic material, the same being provided at different heights enables me to make the with an enlarged piercing-head a and a longipin shorter than is practicable in that class of tudinal slot 5, which is open at thelower end. bill-files in which the slidable tube extends The tube is made of such diameter that it will the entire length of the free portion of the 45 receive the pin 2, but clasp the same with pin, and, what is more important, owing to considerable friction, so that it will retain its the friction grip or hold of the tube on the hold on the latter except when forcibly adpin the whole device may be lifted by seizing justed or disengaged. The lower portion 2 of the tube, since it will not slide off except by the pin is made of the same diameter as the the application of considerable force. It

5 tube 3, and the upper half 2 of the pin is rewill be further noted that the upper part 2 of the pin being pointed it is adapted. to pierce bills and other papers, so that they may be placed on the pin after tube 3 has been detached. This is often a great convenience, since papers of the same kind or such as are indorsed with names having initials that are the same or belong in the same group may be placed and kept together on the lower part 2, While others may be kept on the tube 3.

In Fig. 6 I illustrate a modification in which a tube is applied toa pin Whose curved lower end is secured to a wall-bracket 6, the tube and the main portion of the pin being parallel to the latter;

said base and havingashoulder located about midway of its length, the portion above said shoulder being reduced and pointed, and the pointed detachable and split tube adapted to fit closely upon the reduced portion of the pin, and having exteriorly the same diameter as the lower half of the pin, as shown and described.

JOHN P. WOMBLE. Witnesses:

W. W. VVASHBURN, C. R. HOSKINS. 

